The Bowery
Poetry Club...

Where Poetry and Art
Meet Entertainment, Technology and Commerce

We’re proud to announce the happy, kicking birth
of a new species – a Home for Poetry.

After all, HEY! Poetry is no longer an elitist
pursuit, anathema to real life, obscurantism on toast.

What we have here is a failure to not communicate.
For as Language is the Essence of Humanity, so is Poetry, as practiced
at the Bowery Poetry Club, the Essence of language.

In other words: Words.

We open at 9am on weekdays, 11 weekends.
Through the front door, a small coffee shop serving great coffee and homemade-by-Timo sandwiches, soups, salads. We serve Sweet Love Blend
coffee from Jim's -- we got some super micro sodas including the Bowery's
favorite, Fizzy Lizzies. We been know to chow down on homemade chapbooks & spoken word CDs at the Bookstore– Poetry Served Here.

The full bar opens at 5pm for weekday happy hour
2-for-1's (unless there's an event). Our performance space holds
up to 200, a state-of-the-art sound system with digital recording and cybercast
facilities reside in our crow's nest sound booth.

Next door, our sister space, the Digital Video
Dojo, world’s first walk-in digital editing facility and
school (coffee and nosheri proudly served by the Bowery Poetry Club).

The Club sponsors poetry events every night, workshops
and readings in the afternoons.

THE BOWERY POETRY CLUB revolves like
a solar system around Bob Holman, the building’s
owner and the club’s guiding light. In a recent profile of Bob in
The New Yorker, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., wrote “he
has done more for poetry in the bars than anyone since Ferlinghetti,”
hearkening back to the famed impresario of the Beats. Holman has been making
a living as a poet and running readings for 25 years, first at the St.
Mark’s Poetry then the Nuyorican Poets Cafe where he founded
and MCed their infamous Poetry Slams from 1988-1996. He’s also published
seven books, created Mouth Almighty, the spoken word division
of Mercury Records, produced poetry shows for PBS and MTV,
and toured the world of Poetry Festivals and Readings.
Dubbed a member of the "Poetry Pantheon" by the
New York Times Magazine and crowned "Ringmaster of the Spoken
Word" (New York Daily News), "Poetry Czar"
(Village Voice), "Dean of the Scene" (Seventeen),
Holman will be the on site eminence gris grease that keeps the Club on time,
just in time, for all time.